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MILITARY SURGERY AND MEDICINE. 

 FIG. 16. 



FIG. 18. 



Canvas Frame laid upon the bed, and the foot of the ted elevated by bricks. Foot-block and Pulley. 



FIG. IT. 



Canvas Frame removed from the bed and laid upon "horses. 



FIG. 19. 



FIG. 20. 



John T. Hodgen's Cradle for gunshot fractures of the thigh. 



exposed and dressed, while at the 

 same time the patient is himself 

 aired and comforted. This bed is 

 fully as "well adapted to prevent 

 bed-sores as an air or water bed. 

 The foot-board and extension by 

 weights can be used as well as 

 with Dr. Hamilton's canvas 

 frame. 



Other apparatus in the form 

 of cradles or wire-splints, to be 

 applied to the wounded limb 

 alone, and intended for the ac- 

 complishment of the same object, 

 have been invented, and exten- 

 sively adopted by the surgeons in 

 charge of the principal general 

 hospitals. Among these is the 

 cradle invented by Dr. John T. 

 Hodgen, the able surgeon of the 

 City General Hospital at St.' Louis 

 (figs. 19 and 20.) The limb is sup- 

 ported by transverse straps of. 

 cloth, two and a-half inches wide, 



